Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are also wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.Īs Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti’s political coming of age, Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees uses one woman’s lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. Mama says that war has a way of changing people, that even a brave man occasionally loses hope, and. They are from different ethnic communities. Review: Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. Under the Udala Trees is breathtaking, rich with history and heart' - Tayari Jones One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeomas father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
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